“Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God. You are a vessel that was already full: you must pour away what you have, that you may take in what you have not.”

Second Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 274
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)

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early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

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